Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1725: Chapter 909: The New Alliance

After Li Yuanba took care of all matters, he entered a state of closed-door cultivation.

This time, his retreat was entirely different from before; he intended to elevate his realm to the Peak Great Cultivator before stepping out.

Under normal circumstances, at his Early Stage of Great Cultivator realm, mere seclusion wouldn’t suffice to elevate his realm.

However, his situation was somewhat special. Not to mention the peak Great Cultivator sword intents shared with him by the original, Li Shiming, he personally had comprehension of sword intent that far exceeded his realm.

As long as the accumulation of spiritual energy within him was sufficient, he could continuously elevate his realm until the Peak Great Cultivator Realm.

In his cave abode, he had no concerns about safety; situated within the Sword Cave Heaven, with the presence of the mighty Sword Elder, this was considered the safest place in the Cultivation World.

He took out the ’Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl’ and swallowed a High-Level Spirit Pill for Great Cultivators, activating the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, allowing the ’Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl’ and the spiritual energy from the cave to continuously pour into him.

The speed at which he absorbed the energy from the ’Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl’ was not as great as Li Shiming’s. Li Shiming possessed five Nascent Souls, allowing him to absorb energy from the ’Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl’ at five times the speed of cultivators of the same level.

Therefore, he would not waste any possibility to accelerate his cultivation speed. He took the High-Level Spirit Pill for Great Cultivators to the maximum level he could bear, coupled with the fact that this place was the Sword Cave Heaven, where the internal spiritual energy was fully converted for the sword cultivator’s practice of the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’.

This led him to roughly calculate the time needed for this seclusion, which was between sixty to eighty years.

The reason he couldn’t determine it accurately was because as his cultivation increased, both his energy absorption and the operation of his cultivation technique would experience changes.

Before going into seclusion, Li Yuanba left the matter of alchemy to Jian Wuwei, who was very attentive to the arrangements being made with Li Shizhen.

Jian Wuwei deduced Li Shizhen’s true identity through intelligence from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, realizing he was none other than the former Li Shiming of the Beishu Continent.

This could be deduced from the fact that Li Yuanba and Li Shizhen became friends.

Back then in the Beishu Continent, Li Yuanba and Li Shiming were already friends.

Therefore, Jian Wuwei decided to personally visit for this alchemy commission from the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Although the Ten Thousand Beast Sect had, in the past decades, hosted numerous Great Cultivators, with almost the entire Cultivation World’s Great Cultivators visiting the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to some extent, actual exchanges between sects representing superpowers visiting the Ten Thousand Beast Sect were still rare.

Upon receiving the message of the intended visit from Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, Grandmaster Hu immediately arranged a welcome ceremony equal in status to Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

Jian Wuwei’s special status was sufficient to allow him to represent Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, and now that he held significant power within Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, his formal visit took on a solemn undertone.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect opened a passage for Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion’s Flying Boat, escorted a thousand li away by two Great Cultivators.

Jian Wuwei and Grandmaster Hu met in the main hall of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s grand hall, where Jian Wuwei’s gaze swept the room, not finding the figure of Li Shiming.

"Mr. Jian, you’re looking for Shizhen, aren’t you? He has been recently inspired and is in his cave comprehending his insights. I’ll take you there later!" Grandmaster Hu noticed Jian Wuwei’s intention and explained with a smile.

Grandmaster Hu had no way around it; Li Shiming disliked these formalities. In the past, when Li Shiming wasn’t strong enough, he endured it, but now he wasn’t willing, and truly, no one in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect could force him.

Grandmaster Hu didn’t want to force Li Shiming to participate in such things, anyway. As the Cultivation World’s top Alchemy Master, Li Shiming was allowed some willfulness without drawing fault.

"I have long admired Mr. Li and looked forward to meeting him!" Jian Wuwei replied with a smile.

He knew that when Great Cultivators came to commission alchemy, very few could meet Li Shiming.

In the past, Li Shiming would use a phantom avatar to greet them, but now even the avatars weren’t sent, and it was directly handled by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s cultivators. Even those Great Cultivators in exalted positions across various powers couldn’t meet Li Shiming.

"Aside from this, I also wish to form an alliance with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect. In many ways, the interests of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion do not conflict. I hope the Ten Thousand Beast Sect can play a more crucial role in the Cultivation World!" Jian Wuwei stated another purpose for his visit, filled with formal diction.

Grandmaster Hu naturally wouldn’t refuse. The Ten Thousand Beast Sect, allied with the Luanyang Palace, benefitted substantially when annihilating the Taichu Sect, with no retaliation from the superpower behind the Taichu Sect.

Luanyang Palace was a rather low-profile superpower in the Cultivation World, while Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion was a very high-profile superpower.

After forming an alliance, the Sword Cultivators of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion would likely be eager to get involved whenever Ten Thousand Beast Sect needed assistance.

These battle-keen Sword Cultivators always sought someone to challenge when there was no fight, and given a reason to join a battle, they would, without hesitation.

Having such a powerful ally surely brings immense benefits.

Grandmaster Hu also realized that Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion must see something valuable in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect for them to propose an alliance—it was undoubtedly Li Shiming’s alchemy prowess.

This was beyond question, as Li Shiming had never turned down alchemical commissions.

Jian Wuwei, representing Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, signed a treaty with Grandmaster Hu, representing the Ten Thousand Beast Sect. The conditions were fairly lenient, with few restrictions, yet the significance of this treaty lay not in any constraints but in its existence.